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Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cemetery was opened in 1852, and is located on City Park Avenue (formerly Metairie Road) in the Navarre neighborhood. The cemetery has a number of impressive monuments and sculptures. Notables interred here include: *several mayors of New Orleans *Confederate General Young Marshall Moody, who died of yellow fever in 1866, Thomas M. Scott and James Argyle Smith *Confederate supporter and resister of Union occupation William Bruce Mumford, who was hanged for tearing down a United States flag during Union Army occupation of New Orleans during the American Civil War *Union Army Brigadier General and Brevet Major General William Plummer Benton, who was Collector of Internal Revenue in the City of New Orleans after the Civil War and died of yellow fever in 1867 *jazz legend Leon Roppolo *novelist John Kennedy Toole. *Judge A. J. McNamara of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1982 to 2001 There are nine British Commonwealth service personnel, registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, who are buried or specially commemorated here - four from World War I and five from World War II.〔(CWGC Cemetery Report, breakdown obtained from casualty record. )〕 ==Gallery== File:Confederate Tomb New Orleans.JPG|Confederate Tomb, Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans File:GreenwoodCem12Nov07PoliceCrypt.jpg|Police Crypt at Greenwood Cemetery File:GreenwoodCem12Nov07PoliceHat.jpg|Police Hat on the Police Crypt File:GreenwoodCemNunzioScaglione.jpg|Tomb of jazz musician (Nunzio Scaglione ) File:GreenwoodCem12Nov07ArchGateFireman.jpg|Fireman's Tomb at Greenwood Cemetery File:GreenwoodFiremanNov07StatureFrontRt.jpg|Fireman's Statue at Greenwood Cemetery File:GreenwoodCem12Nov07Mason.jpg|Mason Tomb at Greenwood Cemetery File:FEMA - 19194 - Photograph by Jocelyn Augustino taken on 09-04-2005 in Louisiana.jpg|Greenwood Cemetery after Hurricane Katrina (photograph by Jocelyn Augustino) File:Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA.jpg|Front of Greenwood Cemetery with Fireman and Elks tomb monuments in sunset 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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